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kspenmoll
Deadly Wedding | Kate Parker
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TheSpineView Excellent! Making great progress! ♥️📖📚 4d
Andrew65 Some excellent books in both categories. (edited) 4d
Librarybelle Yay!! 4d
TheBookHippie Wow!! 4d
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kspenmoll
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Pickpick

“To be alive and think are the same thing(228)”.
This graphic novel was in our HS library.I think it is a reliable,researched,brief readable summary of Arendt‘s life & worksThe graphics are fun,facial expressions & body language authentic,Exaggerations of faces,bodies add a playful element.The language is modern- might that be due to the author‘s intended audience? Examples:Lines are “The Game is AFoot 9.1.1939 (100)”The Fleet Street Pundts(101).”

kspenmoll The author‘s graphic artistry in capturing settings:war‘s destruction, camps, NYC, is elemental to the author‘s grasp of time & place,& reveals a sense of realism throughout. #adventuresinphilosophy #HannahArendt (edited) 5d
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kspenmoll
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The birth of Totalitarianism (165). #adventuresinphilosophy #HannahArendt

TheBookHippie This looks like a must have for school libraries! 5d
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kspenmoll
Eleanor and the Cold War | Ellen Yardley
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ravenlee
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While good, there are definitely some caveats. As said before, Arendt had her share of both brilliance and prejudice, and as she‘s a mixed bag so is her biography. I‘m intrigued enough to read some of her work (my first attempt was a spectacular failure, but I‘ll try again), but I‘ll keep my expectations moderate in many ways.

TheBookHippie Simone De Beauvoir and she are my problematic people I learned so much from and think their words on things are so accurate and necessary history. Sigh. 2mo
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GingerAntics
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This is between a pick and a so-so for me, but manages to come down just this side of pick. This is a hard book to get through when our country is currently a flaming mess. Arendt also has some problematic views on race that are clearly due to when she was alive. One would hope, were she alive now, those views would be different.
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GingerAntics There is still some validity to her views on totalitarianism and her perspective of the last time hate ruled the world. Worth reading when in the right head space, but know some of this is going to anger you and even sound white supremacist in places. Stonebridge does a good job at calling out those points and adding her own updates to the ideas for today.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld
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kspenmoll Perfect review!!!! 3mo
GingerAntics @kspenmoll this one was a struggle for me. I almost DNF‘d a few times. 3mo
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GingerAntics
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This is such a cool detail. It‘s also unsurprising. Someone spoke about and from a perspective he did not have, so he sought out that perspective. Plus, he reads. He reads voluntarily and happily. I‘m not sure the current resident of the Oval Office knows the difference between a stack of papers and a book. Both are to be ignored and are of no interest to him. Maybe he can identify the book as something to put his Diet Coke can on. 🙄

Bookwomble Diet Coke? I thought he drinks bleach to stave off the 'rona! 😄 3mo
GingerAntics @Bookwomble that‘s just once a day, then he washes it down with Diet Coke! 🤣😂🤣 3mo
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Oh really? No only have the former confederate states/the former traitor states been ignoring it since the founding of the nation, they are actively seeking to force their chosen ignorance upon the rest of us.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld